Conference Dates: October 21-22, 2022 (AGM: October 22 at 12pm)
This year’s conference and AGM has a hybrid format, offering both online and in-person (Ottawa) attendance. Please click here to register in advance, noting whether you will join us virtually or in-person. Also, please note the location below for each day.
Friday, October 21, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Laurier House National Historic Site (335 Laurier Ave. E, Ottawa)
(Click here to view Laurier House, inside and out, on Google Earth)
5:00pm Welcome
5:05pm – 5:45pm, Friday Keynote (in person and online):
Beyond Sock-Knitters, CWACs, and Laura Secord: Old Questions and New Directions for the History of Women and War, Sarah Glassford
Chair: Dianne Dodd
6:00pm – 7:00 pm
Laurier House: Tour
Examination Unit (codebreakers) plaque visit
7:00pm – à la carte dinner
Saturday, October 22, 8:30am-5:00pm
Location: Lamourex Hall at University of Ottawa (145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private, Ottawa)
8:30am-9:00am
Coffee and in-person check-in
9:00am-9:45am: Saturday Keynote:
Women in Canada’s Bletchley Park: The Examination Unit 1941-1945, Diana Pepall
Chair: Dianne Dodd
9:45am-11:15am: Learning about Gender and War from the Archives
Chair: Sara MacDonald
- Canadian Women’s Army Corps in Ontario and the United Kingdom, Rebecca Murray
- Women Fly in World War II, Liz Muir
- Western University’s First World War Stationary Hospital: The Importance of Archival Work in Undergraduate History Programs (From the Perspective of Two Undergraduates!), Paige Milner and Abigail Parsons
11:45am – 1:15pm: Lunch and AGM
12:00pm – Ontario Women’s History Network Annual General Meeting. All attendees are welcome, but only members may vote
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Virtual Panel: Material Traces of War: Stories of Women and Conflict, 1914-1945
Chair: Meaghan Beaton
Panelists: Krista Cooke, Stacey Barker, and Molly McCullough
2:45pm-4:00pm: Reconceptualizing the Postwar Period
Chair: Sara MacDonald
- “Suffering a slow death” in a “comfortable concentration camp”: The Post-War Housewife in Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, Monda Halpern
- L’histoire au féminin et au présent : le projet Framing Our Pastpour valoriser l’histoire des femmes à l’école Panel, Chair Sharon Cook
Marie-Hélène Brunet, Manouchka Otis & Béatrice de Montigny, Tifanie Valade, Janet Lee.
4:00pm Closing remarks, Shannon Stettner, OWHN Chair
Questions? Please contact:
Shannon at info@owhn-rhfo.ca